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From: snyder@dustbin.cisco.com (Robert Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: SNMP monitor infor wanted
Message-ID: <21681@hercules.csl.sri.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 23:56:56 GMT
References: <1990Oct12.142523.12713@hellgate.utah.edu>
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In article <1990Oct12.142523.12713@hellgate.utah.edu>,
haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) writes:
> It's about time for us to get serious about SNMP.  Now that most of the
> network devices we purchase support SNMP, we could use a good monitor
package.
> Can anyone out there relate real-world stories with products such as the
> cisco NetWatch, HLS 9100 etc.?  I've seen both of those in action (briefly)
> and the cisco seemed to have obviously greater functionality, but $20k is
> a little spendy.  What's available in the public domain?  What is everybody
> out there actually using?
> 
> Thanks in advance  -- Walt Haas     haas@ski.utah.edu

Curious how did you derive the $20k figure?  It is my understanding that
we sell the software for $15k with discounts to educational institutions.
Were you including platform costs?  Or were you not refering to ciscos
netcentral product, since we dont make a "NetWatch" that I could find.

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